Thanks! Yeah, I think it is important for a side project to be able to start working on the actual code as quickly as possible. It is not too much of a problem

Thanks! Yeah, I think it is important for a side project to be able to start working on the actual code as quickly as possible. It is not too much of a problem to set up all these fancy frontend tools before going into production. If it's just a weekend project, it's also fine to just include some external JS libraries directly. What I seem to get away with is using Cookiecutter Django's* simple build pipeline based on npm and gulp. It is basically set up from the moment you finish the project initialization. It even comes with live reloading. The pipeline is based on these files: https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django/blob/master/%7B%7Bcookiecutter.project_slug%7D%7D/package.json https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django/blob/master/%... https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django/blob/master/%7B%7Bcookiecutter.project_slug%7D%7D/gulpfile.js https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django/blob/master/%... * https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django